COMPLETED | Take Me Down The Rabbit Hole (BDSM | 18+)

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Aspen tried his hardest to avoid making eye contact with Alan and instead tried to focus on Rhi's explanation of the tie she was busy putting Aspen in, but of course, his mind had other plans. Rhi had taught Thea, but Leo had gone no-contact with Alan. Was there some sort of invisible line that Leo had crossed that had made him decide that Alan was going to be forever off-limits? Or was it really just the fact that he'd anticipated Alan would prefer a monogamous lifestyle?
How was someone one hundred percent sure that monogamy was what was for them over polyamory? Aspen had played with the thought of polyamory multiple times, but a relationship with Alan was off the table for the obvious reason: Alan wasn't interested in him romantically.
"Too tight?" someone inquired next to him. Rhiannon.
"Oh," Aspen mumbled, suddenly conscious of the fact that he had a body and wasn't just thoughts floating around in Thea's playroom. He looked down at himself and flexed his limbs in the bonds.
"Nope," he assessed. "All good."
"Fantastic. Now, this is a fantastic tie for suspension play, because you can add cuffs to the wrists or ankles — or both, if you wanted — without those interfering with the ropes, but of course, when engaging in suspension play—"
"Necessary precautions must be taken," the audience finished the sentence.
"I see we're all professionals," Rhi said with a chuckle. "Alright, let me show you how you can modify this tie—"
Professionals.
Aspen caught Alan's eyes and noticed his dom was smirking at him. Spencer was right, there would be plenty of time for petty revenge later, and Aspen was looking forward to receiving positive feedback from people.
So, he let Rhi pose him as she liked for the next quarter of an hour, trying to pay attention to the way she tied the ropes so he could replicate it on Alan later.
And then, there was Thea.
Aspen was ignoring them because he knew Thea had higher expectations for him than Alan did — Thanks to Leo.
Aspen hoped that he'd helped Leo see that Alan was worth keeping in touch with, but then again, Thea's brother seemed pretty set in his ways.
And it was unfair how much space Leo occupied in Aspen's brain when that space should be for Alan, Thea, and his work.
"Everyone say thanks to Aspen for being such a wonderful model," Rhi announced, and Aspen watched as she wound the bondage rope around her arm to gather it.
Rhi gave him a smile. "I can't wait to see your work later," she said softly.

Immediately, chaos broke out in the playroom as the other attendants began raiding the supplies Thea had set out, but Aspen just returned to the yoga mat Alan was still occupying.
Alan leaned forward and kissed his forehead. "Such a good model pet," he teased. "Oh look, there's your Mistress."
Thea grinned brightly at them both as they sit on the yoga mat, and Aspen can feel heat rising to his cheeks as Thea said, "So which one of us is first?"
Aspen glanced at Alan, and then he leaned in whispers into Thea's ear, aware of how secretive they both must look in front of Alan as a third party.
'Petty revenge' Spencer had called it.
Aspen didn't consider himself petty, but Thea had whispered something to him that finally made him aware of the fact that tonight — for once — Aspen had the upper hand over Alan.
So he rose, grabbed Alan's hand to pull him up, and dragged him over to the rig dangling from the ceiling.
None of the other people in the room seem to pay them any mind, but Aspen cannot help but wonder how many of them Alan knows, or how many of them know Alan as Leopold's submissive.
Aspen tried to contain his glee as he positioned Alan under the rig and said, "A little birdy told me that your Master isn't very good at bondage but had a thing for suspension play."
Alan narrowed his eyes at him, but he chuckled. "Sounds like you and that little birdy get along well, hm?"
Aspen hesitated for a second before he responded. "Yes. I quite like Mistress Thea, and I have reason to believe that whatever you were hoping she'd do with me backfired."
"Oh, yeah," Alan responds easily and watches as Aspen finds a length of a new kind of rope that Thea had only owned for a few days. The rope was multicolored, each strand of nylon material dyed in a different color to make a rainbow.
Alan didn't protest as Aspen began winding the ropes around his upper arms, he merely watched with a bright smile on his face before he cleared his throat and offered a piece of information Aspen didn't expect: "The little birdy is right. In my time with Leo, we only ever used very simple knots that any beginner in BDSM is taught — the same knots that I taught you — but whenever the big boy knots would come in, he made sure Thea was there to do it for him. Hence, I never really learned much more myself either. When I had the idea to share you with Thea, it wasn't about the bondage aspect in particular, but ... I can tell it has its perks."
Aspen only nods, and then loops the long end of the rope through the rig and pulls at it until Alan is on the tips of his toes.
"I wish," he says finally, "that you had told me that instead of locking the playroom when you found out I was practicing on Spencer."
Alan laughs, and this time, the sound makes heads turn. "Oh, pet,"  he mumbles tenderly. "I didn't do that because you were practicing your ties, I did that because you were playing with a toy that isn't yours."